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Phil Ochs

"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

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"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

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Phil Ochs
"The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone mad."

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Phil Ochs
"It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win."

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Phil Ochs
"Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend."

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Phil Ochs
"And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara."

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Phil Ochs
"There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song."

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Phil Ochs
"God isn't dead - he's just missing in action."

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Phil Ochs
"Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality."

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Phil Ochs
"The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles."

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Phil Ochs
"When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right."

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Phil Ochs
"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life."

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Aberjhani

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

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Aberjhani

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

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Aberjhani

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

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Aberjhani

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

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Aberjhani

"Deep down there is a rose in every heart."

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Aberjhani

"At seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ..."

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Aberjhani

"You know the way of the wind in the night-the desolate alleys my soul takes."

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Aberjhani

"The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away."

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Aberjhani

"On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."

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Aberjhani

"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

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